No. You have it backwards.

“The proposed freeze, which could help position Obama in the political center by sharpening his credentials on fiscal discipline, would exempt the budgets of the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs, along with some international programs.”

It’s difficult for me right now to keep my entries from becoming useless Obama hatred, but that’s what it’s come to. Our military is wasting trillions of dollars this decade and next on Our Excellent Mideast Adventure, with no tangible results at home. Discretionary spending does not include entitlements, so what’s left then? What will be frozen? Here’s a partial list:

– education

– energy

– SCIENCE

– transportation

– environment

It would be both fiscally responsible and brave for Obama to have proposed the opposite, to have frozen or scaled back military spending or even entitlements. Instead, he’s more or less freezing every program I care most about. Fuck him and fuck this. I’m staying home November.

-UPDATE-

Ok, I freaked out. And while I am updating this almost immediately, before anyone has likely seen it, I won’t edit out anything because I think people should see my initial reaction. That being said, there are still details to work out and Matt Yglesias runs through some of them. I trust Yglesias a lot, and while he admits his skepticism, I will wait before commenting much more on this.